By C. D. Stelzer, Riverfront Times, 8 April
1992. In 1979, the House Select Committee on
Assassinations (HSCA) concluded there was a
St. Louis-based conspiracy to murder the Rev. Martin
Luther King. Evidence gathered by the HSCA has been sealed
until 2027. James Earl Ray, the convicted murderer of
King, claims the congressional investigation itself was a
cover-up.

By Monica Moorehead, Workers World, 3 July
1997. King family believes President Lyndon Baines
Johnson, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the
Central Intelligence Agency were responsible for the
shooting death of his father, civil-rights leader
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. King was assassinated on April
4, 1968.

Associated Press, 30 November 1997. Army intelligence
agents monitored Martin Luther King Jr.'s public
appearances in Memphis in the days before his murder in
1968. Speculation has swirled for years about the possible
presence of Army intelligence agents and Special Forces
troops in Memphis when King died.

By Vanessa Lewis, Workers World, 9 April
1998. After 30 years, additional evidence has come to
light in the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr. It reinforces the view of King's family—and much
of the progressive and civil-rights movement—that
the FBI was part of a racist conspiracy to obscure the
identities of the real killers.

By Sue Anne Pressley, Washington Post, 9
December 1999. A jury decided that slain civil rights
leader Martin Luther King Jr. was the victim of an
assassination conspiracy and did not die at the hands of a
lone gunman.

Editorial, Workers World, 20 January
2000. It's the beginning of a new century. When will
the culpability of this country's ruling class
political establishment in the assassination of Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr. be acknowledged before the public?

By Douglas Valentine, CounterPunch, 11
February 2003. Bill Pepper's book, An Act of
State: the Execution of Martin Luther King (Verso,
2003), is required reading for anyone interested in how the
illegitimate Bush regime will wield its ill-gotten power,
not against Iraq, but against dissenters here in
America.